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No. 305,064. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,064, dated September 16, 1884.

Application filed November), 1863. (No model.)

To crZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ ENDRES, of the city, county. and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has referenceto improvements in the construction of safes, whereby the hinge-connection of the door with the body of the safe and the mechanism for locking the door are entirely hidden and out of sight, so that the safe is not only protected in a higher degree against the attacks of burglars, but presents also a neater and more finished appearance.

The invention consists of a safe the door of which is hung to hinges that are covered by the front frame of the safe, the hinge-connection consisting of fixed screw-pintles that are inserted into socket-holes of the side wall, back of the front frame, and passed through the pintle-sleeves of the door, which sleeves are arranged at the ends of inwardly-extending horizontal leaves of quadrantal shape, which leaves swing in corresponding recesses of the side wall of the safe.

The invention. consists, secondly, of a safe the front frame of which has face-recesses and parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the door, partly in section, on line 00 m, Fig. 3, so as to show the locking mechanism. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section ofthe door. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the door and its connection with the safe-body on a larger scale, and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the over lapping corners of the locking-bars.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Am the drawings represents a safe-body, which is constructed in the usual manner of double walls, the space between which is filled with a suitable non-conductor of heat. The front part, A, of the safe-body A is provided with a rectangular recess, a, that extends along the front end of the side, top, and bot tom walls of the safe-body, as shown in Fig. 1. The recess c is bounded at its inner edge with a solid projecting strip, a, that is in line with the inner edges of the walls of the body A, and provided with a groove, a at that side facing the recess.

The door 13 of the safe is provided at its exterior part with a tongue, B, of such a shape that it fits into the recess a at the front part of the safe-body, so that when the door is placed into closed position it fills the front of the safe like a panel, without showing any joint between the door and the front part of the safe. The hinge'conneetion of the doorB with the safe-body A is arranged so as to be entirely out of sight, for which purpose the door is provided with horizontal leaves 0 of quadrantal shape, which are recessed from the front of the leaf inwardly, as shown in Figs.

3 and 4.. The outer ends of the leaves 0 are I provided with sleeves 0, through which screwpintles G are passed that are inserted, respectively,through vertical socketholes at the top and bottom of the side wall of the safe-body A. The pintles G are provided for this purpose with threaded ends and square heads, as shown in Fig. 1. Theleaves 0 move in horizontal recesses b in that side wall of the safe body to which the door B is hinged, said recesses corresponding in shape to the leaves, as shown in Fig. 4. are arranged back of the exterior front frame, A, which covers .the hinge-connections of the door and safe-body, so that they are entirely out of sight and protected against attacks. When the door is thrown into open position, the quadrantal leaves 0 are guided in the horizontal recesses 12 b of the safe-body, the quadrantal recesses of the leaves admitting them to move clear of thefront frame, A, until the leaves abut against the front frame, in which position the door is entirely open, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4.. The exterior tongue, 13, of the doorB is fitted accurately into the recesses a a The horizontal recesses b of the front of the safe-body A, and grooved at, its inner side in line with the grooves a of the strips c a of the body A. The depth of the grooves (Z (Z of the tongues B is twice as large as the depth of the groove a of the strips a a, so as to provide the required space for the locking-bars D D, which are stored away in the grooves d d of the tongues B when the door is in open position. hen the door B is locked to the safe-body, the locking-bars D D are moved forward, so as to take into the grooves of the strips a a, and engage thereby said strips and the tongues B B, as shown in Fig. 4. The locking-bars D D are arranged in the four sides of the grooved tongue B of the door, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, the ends of the vertical side bars D D being guided by means of angular tongues (1, having beveled ends in the centrally-recessed ends of the horizontal bars D D, arranged in the grooves of the top and bottom tongues B of the door, as shown in Fig, 5, whereby the loeking-bars D D guide each other, so as to move simultaneously into open or closed position. The bars D D are actuated by means of fixed intermediate rods, D, which extend at right angles from the bars D toward. the center of the door, said rods D being guided by slots on fixed guidepins of the door-fran1e, or in any other suitable manner. The inner ends of the rods D have pins 0 e,which are engaged by cceentricallycurved slots 6 of a centrally-pivoted disk, E, that is actuated by the knob E of the door B. The knob E is so connected with the disk E that when the combination of the lock is set the knob anddisk may be turned, and thereby the locking bars D moved by the eccentric slots 0 and rods D into the grooves of the tongues B of the door B, so that the door can be opened. When the knob is turned in the opposite direction, the locking-bars are thrown simultaneously in part into the grooved strips (1 a of the safe-body, so as to interlock therewith and secure the door rigidly in closed position on all its four sides. As all the locking-bars are connected to the actuating-disk E by the intermediate rods, D, all move to-' gether. The locking action takes place simultaneously around the entire door, so that a very reliable locking mechanism is obtained,

that is also entirely covered and thereby not accessible from the outside to the tools of burglars. As the hinge-connection of the do or and safe-body is likewise protected and cannot be interferred with, a very strong and reliable safe construction is obtained which presents a more finished and ornamental appearance from the outside, especially when the molding of the front frame of the safe-body and the exterior molding of the door are arranged with proper reference to each other. WVhen the safe is made with two doors the hinges are arranged in both side walls, in the manner shown in Fig. 4, one wing of the door being then provided with a tongue, while the other wing is provided with a recess to receive the vertical tongue when the doors are closed. The locking-bars are arranged in the remaining sides of the doors, and operated by a sep arate knob and actuating-disk of each door,as customary in large safes having two doors.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improvement in safes, the combination of a safe-body having a front frame and horizontal quadrantal recesses back of said front frame, a door having recessed quadrantal leaves and screw-pintles passing through pintle-sleeves at the ends of the leaves, and screwed into vertical socket holes of the safebody, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination,witl1 a safe-body provided with a recess on its front face, of a door having an inwardly-proj ectin g flan ge or tongue adapted to fit the recess of the safe-body, said recess and tongue being provided on adjacent faces with corresponding grooves, lockingbars movable in said grooves, and mechanism connecting said locking-bars with the doorknob for moving the bars within the grooves to lock or release the door, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANZ ENDRES.

WVitnesses: PAUL GoErEL, SIDNEY MANN. 

